Linking to Library Resources

Library services and resources that may be helpful for instructors.

Linking to O’Reilly for Higher Education ebooks, videos and more

Linking to O'Reilly for Higher Education Content

O'Reilly Logo Safari Books Online is now O’Reilly for Higher Education. 

  • Improved interface with broader content including e-books, audiobooks, learning paths, videos, and more.
  • Instructors should not plan to use this as a textbook replacement (not allowed by license), but this can be used for supplemental course materials.
  • Unlimited users, but all users must authenticate - even on-campus.

Links to the Safari database will likely not redirect.  The resources should be the same, but each link will need to be recreated in the new O'Reilly database.

You can add a stable link to the whole O'Reilly for Higher Education collection

https://ezproxy.madisoncollege.edu/login?url=https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/temporary-access/?email=^u

O'Reilly for Higher Education Persistent Links

On-Campus and Off-Campus users must authenticate (log in with their college email address and password) to Madison College Libraries via EZproxy 

To create an O’Reilly persistent link (durable url) which will allow off-campus access through EZproxy:

Linking to e-books in O’Reilly for Higher Education

O’Reilly currently does not have a permalink feature that will consistently allow users access through EZProxy. You will have to build a URL as follows:

  1. Find the item you’d like to link to in O’Reilly
  2. Copy the highlighted portion of the link in the address bar. This is essentially some version of  title/isbn

oreilly link

  1. Paste that portion of the link into the following

https://ezproxy.madisoncollege.edu/login?url=https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/machine-learning-for/9781789136364/?ar&email=^u

The generated link should allow proxied access to the full view of the e-book for Madison College users.

Shared playlists

To access a shared playlist:

  1. Users should first access O'Reilly through the full collection link: https://ezproxy.madisoncollege.edu/login?url=https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/temporary-access/?email=^u
  2. Users should then enter the URL for the shared O'Reilly playlist. Here is a sample playlist link to try: https://learning-oreilly-com.ezproxy.madisoncollege.edu/playlists/8c675f0f-6846-483d-afef-be6f30d1f6d4

Sample O'Reilly stable links